the little daw is back with mum and dad this morning
Jam Lady
Joined: 28 Dec 2006 Posts: 2571 Location: New Jersey, USA
Posted: Fri Jul 05, 24 2:21 pm Post subject:
Himself drove to Wal-Mart yesterday. Pulled into parking slot. The adjacent one had a store-provided motorized shopping cart abandoned in it. And in the basket was a discarded McDonald's bag. Which apparently still had something in it as it was being foraged by two crows.
We sat for a few minutes so I could take pictures through my window - thought if we lowered the window it would shoo the birds away. You can see how close we were.
Shows how important it is to always carry camera bag with me - if I have it I can always not use it. But if I don't, then I cannot.
Sometimes see crows doing that in this country, but more often seagulls and pigeons. Good pictures of them Jam Lady.
When my husband worked near the sea there was a saying that if you threw a sandwich up in the air, even if there wasn't a seagull in sight, the sandwich would never hit the ground as it would be caught by a gull.
Crows and rooks tend to go more for road kill here.
We occasionally see jays in our wood but they seem quite well behaved if several together as usually looking for the nuts they stashed. We have the odd raven in among the rooks and they seem to play nicely together.
Joined: 23 Jan 2009 Posts: 8926 Location: Ayrshire, Scotland
Posted: Mon Jul 08, 24 7:22 am Post subject:
Good shots.
I have found the redcurrant culprit...a young blackbird I think...brown with a mottled chest? Apart from stuffing itself full of my redcurrants it is defending the bush from allcomers....
I have found the redcurrant culprit...a young blackbird I think...brown with a mottled chest? Apart from stuffing itself full of my redcurrants it is defending the bush from allcomers....
they do like berry fruits
net or share? you might need to get up early for share
gz
Joined: 23 Jan 2009 Posts: 8926 Location: Ayrshire, Scotland
Posted: Mon Jul 08, 24 7:27 am Post subject:
A new fruit cage was planned as the bushes are getting big...the old net was shot so that didn't get used...then Life took over
I generally share the last of the crop anyway but the birds don't play that way
Wildlife usually goes for thing before or as soon as it is ripe. We have wild strawberries in the woods, but I rarely get a look in. Sometimes get wild raspberries and of course enough blackberries for everyone.
Went down the road yesterday to look at a bank that is covered in wild flowers at the moment. A bit shaggy, but good downland turf. Found a lot of rest harrow, two types of bedstraw (ladies and heath I think), the harebells which have just survived repeated mowing at the wrong time in the past, yarrow, pyramid orchids and a few more. Looks lovely at the moment. The regime of not cutting the verges until the autumn round here seems to have improved the flora amazingly. The opposite side of the road has a good collection of pyramid orchids and further down there are a good crop of teasels. I like flowers as they have the decency to stay still and not be as variable as fungi.
View Latest Posts